their bagus fried rice
flecked with tasty morsel jewel
egg, peas, shrimp, chicken
... and occasional Tanka... and Haibun. Started after a competition on the unbound.co.uk blog (see #1 and #2). Mostly actually senryu, I think. This year attempting to publish a Haiku every day - 365 Haiku a Day. For good or for ill, I always aim to stick rigidly to a 5-7-5 structure - forgive me if I have counted the syllables wrong, often they are how I have said, or thought, them in my head rather than their official number.
pretty troll isn't
scary probably kind of
cool i bet i’m sure
From words on page 20 (ish) of Hilda and the Troll by Luke Pearson (Nobrow 2010).
the escapade year
college thrown downwards, sidetracked.
lioness feeding.
From words on page 305 of Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones (Harper Fire 2025/1985).